16 January,2024 10:11 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A Mumbai court ordered probe into a man's allegation claiming that unidentified persons accessed his social media accounts using a microchip implanted into his body. According to a report in PTI, the Borivali Metropolitan Magistrate BN Chikne directed Charkop police to register an FIR and conduct a thorough probe.
According to the report, the Mumbai court while ordering the probe emphasised on the importance of the final report's on-time submission and directed that all necessary papers be forwarded to the Charkop police station's Cyber Crime Division.
The complaint, filed by Sachin Sonawane through advocate Prakash Salsingikar, stemmed from the hacking of all his social media accounts. Sonawane expressed concerns that the hacker had bugged him with a microchip, enabling unauthorized access to his accounts, including a new Gmail account, despite his security measures like password changes, the report added.
According to the report, Sonawane claimed that the hacker, using the supposed microchip, repeatedly altered his pulse rate, endangering his life.
After studying Sonawane's application and affidavit, the court found prima facie evidence of offences under the Information Technology Act and Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code. Given these circumstances, the court determined that a thorough investigation into cybercrime should be conducted by a specialised police unit, the PTI report added.
In another unrelated incident, a youth was arrested by Navi Mumbai police for allegedly killing a 35-year-old woman at a lodge in Turbhe. The 24-year-old resident of Saki Naka reportedly was courting the deceased woman.
According to the PTI report, during interrogation, the officials found out that the accused had been pressuring the woman to marry him and had resorted to threatening her. He had told the deceased woman that he will share her private photos with her family. He had reportedly sent some photos to her mother and sister already in an attempt to blackmail her.
Things reared an evil head on January 8 when the two got into a heated altercation at the Navi Mumbai lodge and in a fit of rage, the accused reportedly strangled the woman before fleeing the scene, the PTI report added.
With PTI inputs
